DPN Topics
Subject: Polity Context: An appeal filed by the Rajasthan Speaker’s office challenging the State High Court’s order to defer anti-defection proceedings against 19 MLAs Concept: Article 212 provides that courts cannot inquire into proceedings of the legislature. The validity of any proceedings in the Legislature of a State shall not be called in question on […]
Subject: Geography Context: The first ‘Assessment of Climate Change over Indian Region” report by Ministry of Earth Sciences warned about India’s climatic vulnerabilities and stressed for need of mitigations. Findings: Temperature Surface air temperature over India has risen by 0.6°C per year during 1901-2018. Regions of North India have undergone warming more than the South, […]
Subject: Economy Context: Reduced GST revenues due to pandemic has translated into delayed and pending compensation payments to states by the centre. Concept: Compensation cess was introduced as relief for States for the loss of revenues arising from the implementation of GST. States, in lieu of giving up their powers to collect taxes on goods […]
Subject: Economy Context: Government’s waiver of Merchant discount rate (MDR) on certain payments will hamper payment innovations and growth says RBI constituted the Committee under the Chairmanship of D.B. Phatak. Concept: MDR is a fee charged from a merchant by a bank for accepting payments from customers through credit and debit cards in their establishments. […]
Subject: Government schemes Context: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has directed Common Service Centres (CSC) to complete the work of providing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and WiFi connections from the panchayat level to individual homes. Concept: Common Services Centre (CSC) programme is an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY), Government of India. The CSC […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: The third unit of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP-3) in Gujarat has achieved its first criticality. Concept: Nuclear fission In nuclear fission, an unstable atom splits into two or more smaller pieces that are more stable, and releases energy in the process. The fission process also releases extra neutrons, which […]
Subject: Polity Context: The contempt case has been initiated against advocate Prashant Bhushan. Concept: According to the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, contempt of court can either be civil contempt or criminal contempt. Civil contempt means willful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or willful breach of […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: There is increasing evidences of disease spread from plants and animals to humans. Concept: ‘One Health’ is an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and […]
Subject: Environment Context: Temperatures exceeded 38C in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June, the highest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic circle. Concept: This new record breaks the Arctic town’s 32-year record it set on 25 July 1988, which was a sweltering 37.3 degrees Celsius set on 25 July 1988. The town of […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Repurposed drugs are used in COVID treatment. Concept: Drug repurposing, also known as drug repositioning, is a drug development strategy predicated on the reuse of existing licensed drugs for new medical indications Compulsory licensing and section 92 Compulsory licensing is when a government allows someone else to produce a patented […]